FullMoon Wrote:> https://news.yahoo.com/study-rewrites-understanding-modern-japans-180858811.html
> John, have you seen this. Japanese have roughly 71% Han ancestry.
> There goes the 'racial superiority' claim or partially?

FullMoon Wrote:> That would be great. But I respect your perspective as well and
> would like to know if you found anything during your study.
> Acknowledgement and adoption took some during it's westward
> journey did it not? Slow start, burn bright and then dim or
> fizzle out. That's what I learned but I could be wrong.

Bob Butler" Wrote:> [Re Baghdad Bob]: I'm sure that you couldn't answer with a
> rational argument, but I expected you to be a bit more creative in
> inventing an insult. I'm not sure even which Baghdad
> administration you are identifying me with.

Bob Butler" Wrote:> Let’s list four of the major pieces of the Democratic agenda.
> Save lives by fighting Covid. All men should be equal under law
> rather than victims of prejudice, oppression and violence. The
> environment should be protected. The infrastructure should be
> kept up to date. All of these things are supported by the
> majority.

• Taiwan celebrates 'Taiwan National Day'
  
• China sends hundreds of fighter planes and bombers into Taiwan airspace
  
• Xi Jinping is running out of time
  
• China's disastrous one-child policy produces harsh consequences
  
• Taiwan's friends -- America, Japan, Australia, India
  
• The Beijing Olympics
  
• When will the Chinese Communists invade Taiwan?
  
• Moving
  

• China mounts largest incursion yet near Taiwan, blames U.S. for tensions (Reuters, 4-Oct-2021)
  
• Record number of PLA warplanes flying over Taiwan Straits as form of National Day ‘military parade’ (Global Times, Beijing, 3-Oct-2021)
  
• The US must avoid war with China over Taiwan at all costs (Guardian, London, 5-Oct-2021)
  
• Taiwan says it's 'on alert' amid China air incursions (Deutche Welle, 5-Oct-2021)
  
• Record number of China planes enter Taiwan air defence zone (BBC, 5-Oct-2021)
  
• Taiwan marks ‘national day’ today under looming shadow of China (Hindustan Times, 10-Oct-2021)
  
• Taiwan rejects China's 'path' amid show of military force (AP, 10-Oct-2021)
  
• Xi Jinping vows to fulfil Taiwan ‘reunification’ with China by peaceful means (Guardian, London, 9-Oct-2021)
  
• Xi Jinping Warns World to Butt Out of 'Taiwan Question' (Newser, 9-Oct-2021)
  
• Chinese President Xi Jinping says peaceful reunification with Taiwan is in country’s best interests (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, 9-Oct-2021)
  
• China's Xi vows 'reunification' with Taiwan (Reuters, 9-Oct-2021)
  
• Taiwan won't be forced to bow to China, president says (Reuters, 10-Oct-2021)
  
• There's talk of the threat of war between China and Taiwan, and it's impacting Asian Australians (Australian Broadcasting, 6-Oct-2021)
  
• Attrition: Revising Chinese History As It Happens (Strategy Page, 28-May-2021)
  
• China Slams [former PM Tony] Abbott Warning It Could 'Lash Out Disastrously' Over Taiwan as Xi Vows Reunification (Australian Broadcasting, 9-Oct-2021)
  
• Canberra’s provocative actions over Taiwan may render irreparable damage to China-Australia relations (Global Times, Beijing, 6-Oct-2021)
  
• Taiwan’s Tsai turns to masters for help out of fear of catastrophic consequences: Global Times editorial (Global Times, Beijing, 5-Oct-2021)
  
• Recognize That China Has Huge Demographic Problems (Forbes, 25-Mar-2021)
  
• US troops deployed to Taiwan to train local forces amid growing tensions with China, report says (Stars And Stripes, 7-Oct-2021)
  
• Deflation Threat Looms As China Suffers First Population Decline Since 1949 (Zero Hedge, 27-Apr-2021)
  
• Japan Sees China-Taiwan Friction as Threat to Its Security (Bloomberg, 24-Jun-2021)

• Japan's plans for defending Taiwan from an attack by China (28-Jun-2021)
  
  
• China Evergrande construction firm heads to default (25-Sep-2021)
  
  
• China and Japan significantly escalate military tensions over Taiwan (24-Jul-2021)
  
  
• China's Evergrande financial crisis threatens China's financial stability (16-Sep-2021)
  
  
• ANKUS agreement: US and UK will help Australia build nuclear-powered submarine fleet (17-Sep-2021)
  
  
• The Afghanistan catastrophe (23-Aug-2021)
  
  
• Minister suggests Japan will defend Taiwan against military invasion by China (24-May-2020)
  
  
• Xi Jinping invokes the 1840s Opium Wars to justify military action for China's 'rejuvenation' (21-Mar-2018)
  
  
• Coronavirus coverup unravels in US as China threatens Australia (01-Jun-2021)
  

• There was a port blast a little over a year ago in Beirut.
  It was huge, and it flattened the entire city. The government
  is to blame.
  
  
• The entire economy has collapsed. Electricity is available at
  most two hours a day, and often zero hours a day. The government is
  to blame.
  
  
• There has been an investigation to find out who in the government
  is to blame. Rumors are that the investigation is finding Hezbollah
  is to blame, which doesn't surprise me in the least.
  
  
• There were protests this morning by Hezbollah protesters and their
  Shia Amal political party demanding
  that the investigation be ended.
  
  
• Christian militias tried to end the protests, and this led to the
  gun battles that killed several people. I don't know whether they
  were Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's (Iran-supported Shia Muslim) Hezbollah /
  Amal people or whether they were Michel Aoun's (Syriac Maronite
  Catholic) Christian militia people.
  
  
• Now I do. The dead are five pro-Hezbollah protesters who were
  "shot in the head."
  
  
• Switching over to al-Jazeera, where the coverage is much more
  intense: The Christian snipers are shooting from buildings. Hezbollah's
  army is conducting searches of all the building.
  
  
• The gun battles are ongoing. The gun battle is now in its fourth
  hour. There are now six people dead.
  
  
• It's now escalating -- machine guns, rocket-propelled
  grenades.
  
  
• There's talk of a fear of a renewal of the 1980s civil war, but
  that's impossible because Lebanon is in a generational Unraveling era.
  This gun battle is in the generational Democide pattern that describes
  what happens in the decades following an ethnic civil war.

• The president, currently Michel Aoun, must be a Syriac
  Maronite Catholic. Michel Aoun is 83 years old.
  
  
• The speaker of parliament must be a Shia Muslim. The current
  speaker is Nabih Berri, who has held the position since 1992. The
  Shia Muslim sect in Lebanon is controlled by the terrorist militia
  Hezbollah, which is led by Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah.
  
  
• The prime minister, must be a Sunni Muslim. Saad al-Hariri was
  designated for this position, following the resignation of Hassan Diab
  after the August 4 explosion a year ago. Hassan Diab has stayed on in
  a caretaker capacity until political leaders can agree on a new
  premier.

(10-10-2021, 07:01 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: *** 11-Oct-21 World View -- Tensions heat up between China and Taiwan

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com

• Taiwan celebrates 'Taiwan National Day'
  
• China sends hundreds of fighter planes and bombers into Taiwan airspace
  
• Xi Jinping is running out of time
  
• China's disastrous one-child policy produces harsh consequences
  
• Taiwan's friends -- America, Japan, Australia, India
  
• The Beijing Olympics
  
• When will the Chinese Communists invade Taiwan?
  
• Moving
  

****
**** Taiwan celebrates 'Taiwan National Day'
****


Isabel Zhang was born in mainland China, while her husband James Xu is Taiwanese.  The Australian couple are worried about their respective families in case of war (Australian Broadcasting)

On October 10, 1911, the Wuchang Uprising began, launching the Chinese
Revolution and forming the Chinese Nationalists, led by Sun Yat-Sen.
He created the Republic of China based on his "Three Principles of the
People," developed in 1905 -- nationalism, democracy and welfare.
Later in the century, the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Zedong,
defeated the Chinese Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai-shek, in the
Chinese civil war that climaxed in 1949.  Chiang Kai-shek and the
Chinese Nationalists fled to Formosa and formed the nation of Taiwan.
On Sunday, October 10, Taiwan celebrated the anniversary of the
uprising that led to the Republic of China.

Beijing prefers to celebrate its own China National Day on October 1,
which commemorates the creation of the People's Republic of China in
1949.  The Chinese Communists hate Taiwan's National Day, and this has
led to dueling rhetoric.

Taiwan celebrated with huge parades highlighted by military equipment.
Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen said the following:

   <QUOTE>"We will do our utmost to prevent the status quo from
   being unilaterally altered.

   We will continue to bolster our national defense and demonstrate
   our determination to defend ourselves in order to ensure that
   nobody can force Taiwan to take the path China has laid out for
   us.

   The path that China has laid out offers neither a free and
   democratic way of life for Taiwan, nor sovereignty for our 23
   million people."<END QUOTE>

Quote:****
**** China sends hundreds of fighter planes and bombers into Taiwan airspace
****

During the past few days, the Chinese Communists have sent hundreds of
fighter planes and bombers into Taiwan airspace.  China's state media
explained this aerial invasion in this way:

   <QUOTE>"According to statistics from Taiwan island, the PLA
   has sent warplanes into the island's "airspace" in 198 days so far
   this year. Such a number reflects that the PLA has carried out
   wide-ranged and profound operations to familiarize itself with
   battlefield conditions, with a large number of PLA Air Force units
   having experience flying close to the island. Once the order to
   attack is given, the PLA's pilots will fight as "experienced
   veterans." ...

   The PLA is forming a siege of Taiwan with a show of strength as it
   did in Beijing in 1949. There is no doubt about the future of the
   situation across the Taiwan Straits. The initiative of when and
   how to solve the Taiwan question is firmly in the hands of the
   Chinese mainland."<END QUOTE>

Well, that's an interesting historical comparison.  They're relating
the "siege" of Taiwan to a siege that the Communists used to defeat
the Nationalists in 1949.

Quote:So the Communists say that the purpose of sending hundreds of
warplanes over Taiwan is to allow their pilots to gain experience and
become "experienced veterans."  There are two possible interpretations
of this.  One is that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is imminent, and
the other is that the current incursions are merely practice for a
future invasion to occur sometime in the future.

Quote:Last week, as the hundreds of warplanes were threatening Taiwan,
Communist leader Xi Jinping said the following:

   <QUOTE>"Taiwan independence separatism is the biggest
   obstacle to achieving the reunification of the motherland, and the
   most serious hidden danger to national rejuvenation. ...

   Reunification through a peaceful manner is the most in line with
   the overall interest of the Chinese nation, including Taiwan
   compatriots. ...

   No one should underestimate the Chinese people's staunch
   determination, firm will, and strong ability to defend national
   sovereignty and territorial integrity. The historical task of the
   complete reunification of the motherland must be fulfilled, and
   will definitely be fulfilled."<END QUOTE>

Quote:****
**** Xi Jinping is running out of time
****

Xi's problem is that, in many ways, he's running out of time, mostly
for generational reasons.

Until the 1990s, the Nationalists ruled Taiwan, and most Taiwanese
believed that it was only a matter of time before Taiwan would be
reunitied with the mainland, although many would have demanded that
the Nationalists govern the reunited country.

Since then, the survivors of the 1940s civil war have died off, and
new generations have grown and come to power.  A major turning point
was the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, which the citizens of Taiwan
watched with horror.  This led to the rise of the nominally
pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), whose leader is
the current president Tsai Ing-wen.  As the new generations have come
to power, and young people displace old people, more and more people
oppose reunification.  In recent years, Beijing's brutal treatment of
Hong Kong has reinforced this opposition.  According to polls, fewer
than 10% of the people today favor reunification, and many of those
would agree to reunification only if mainland China became a
democratic country, something that's not going to happen.

So Xi Jinping is running out of time in Taiwan, but he's also running
out of time on the mainland.  Younger generations are increasingly
nationalistic and xenophobic, and are demanding that Xi Jinping stop
stalling and take action in Taiwan.

Quote:****
**** China's disastrous one-child policy produces harsh consequences
****

The one-child policy, adopted in 1979, has been a disaster for China.
Women who had unapproved pregnancies could be violently dragged from
their homes and forced to abort and be sterilized.  If an unapproved
child was born, then the child could not be registered, and
essentially did not exist, so could not get schooling or other social
benefits.

The policy accelerated the aging of the population, and a decline in
the working-age population, which threatens economic growth.
Furthermore, with fewer children, fewer elderly people could be cared
for by their children.  In 2015 there were eleven working age Chinese
for every retiree. By 2050, if not earlier, there will only be two for
each retiree.

In addition, parents often aborted girl babies, since they wanted
their one child to be a boy.  The result is that millions of young
males have been unable to find a wife, and so females are enticed or
coerced (kidnapped by criminal gangs) to become wives of Chinese men
who have no other options, which is raising tensions with China's
neighbors.

The result is that the number of elderly people is growing, while the
population as a whole is shrinking.  This puts a strain on the
country's pension system, and creates a constantly shrinking labor
force.  China is already finding it difficult to fill many difficult
jobs, including jobs in the military, resulting in lower GDP growth.

Quote:There are other domestic problems facing Xi Jinping.  The collapse of
Evergrande is spreading and could have far-reaching consequences,
including outside of China.  (See "25-Sep-21 World View -- China Evergrande construction firm heads to default"
)

Internationally, China is facing criticism about its brutal crackdown
on the free press in Hong Kong, China's arrest and enslavement of
millions of Uighurs, and illegal belligerent actions in the South
China Sea.  The Chinese Communists have made it abundantly clear that
they don't care at all what others think of them, and what
international laws they violate.  What we're seeing is the
millennia-old Chinese culture saying that the rest of the world are
barbarians, and are to be treated as donkeys, with no purpose except
to serve the Chinese Communists.

Quote:****
**** Taiwan's friends -- America, Japan, Australia, India
****

According to analysts, China would prevail in an invasion of Taiwan,
although Taiwan would inflict a great deal of damage on China at the
same time.  However, that assumes that Taiwan would fight Taiwan
alone.

By the way, to my knowledge nobody supports China's invasion of
Taiwan.  Cambodia and Pakistan are close allies with China, but I'm
not aware that they or any other country would join China in an
invasion of Taiwan.

However, there are several countries that are likely to help defend
Taiwan.

The most obvious friend is the United States, and it's debated
endlessly whether the US would defend Taiwan, or would just stand by
and allow Taiwan to be swallowed up by China.  My personal belief is
that this would constitute a "generational regeneracy" event
(regenerating civic unity behind the president), and we would be at
war with China within a few hours or days.

America has been helping Taiwan to defend itself, mainly by providing
weapons systems.  In the last few days, it was reported that about two
dozen U.S. troops have been deployed to Taiwan for at least the last
year to train local military forces to bolster the island's defenses.
The special operators have worked with Taiwanese ground troops and the
Marines have worked with maritime forces on small-boat operations.

Taiwan has other friends, most notably Japan.  As I've been writing
for years, China has been thirsting for a war with Japan in revenge
for the atrocities (chemical warfare, rape of Nanking) committed by
Japan on China during World War II.  Furthermore, and nationalism and
xenophobia have increased in both countries, and there are now signs
that the Japanese are thirsting for a new war with the Chinese.  It
shouldn't take long for both thirsts to be quenched.

One trigger for a Japanese war with China would be a Chinese invasion
of Taiwan.  Although Japan has a "pacifist" constitution, in 2015 the
law was reinterpreted to permit Japanese forces to defend an ally
(Taiwan or the US) as "collective self-defense," provided that Japan's
government determined that the war was a security threat that
threatened Japan's own survival.  For example, the Japanese might view
the invasion of Taiwan as a stepping-stone to a planned invasion of
Japan.  (See "28-Jun-21 World View -- Japan's plans for defending Taiwan from an attack by China"
)

Beyond Japan, there is also the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue,
linking the United States, Japan, India and Australia, This grouping
does not have any military commitments, but it will hold talks to
"hold China accountable."

Quote:****
**** The Beijing Olympics
****

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will begin on Friday, February 4,
and end on Sunday, February 20.  This is an interesting milepost in
the discussions of a possible Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

On the one hand, the Olympics games are a matter of enormous
prestige for the Chinese Communists, and they would not want to
besmirch the games by an untoward event, like a major war.  This suggests
that any planned invasion of Taiwan would have to come after February 20.

On the other hand, it's expected that there will be substantial
boycotts of the games, for two reasons.  One reason is that China is
actively committing genocide, ethnic cleansing and enslavement of
millions of Muslim Uighurs, and many people will boycott in protest.
The second reason is that China kidnaps and jails foreigners without
charges in order to gain political advantage, in a policy known as
"hostage diplomacy," and many people want to stay away from China for
fear of being held hostage to some political dispute.

Quote:****
**** When will the Chinese Communists invade Taiwan?
****

Xi Jinping and Tsai Ing-wen both upped rhetoric this past week, in
celebration of the "National Days" for China and Taiwan, respectively,
with China going much farther by launching hundreds of warplanes to
fly over Taiwan.

There is enormous and growing pressure on Xi Jinping to do something
to solve the Taiwan problem.  However, I agree with those analysts who
say that Xi cannot risk an invasion at this time (or at any time,
really) because the results would be too unpredictable and potentially
catastrophic.  So you have the "pressure cooker" analogy, where you
don't know when the pressure will be too great, but you know that the
pressure has to blow at some point.  Or maybe you prefer the "straw
that breaks the camel's back" analogy where you know that if you keep
piling on straw, then eventually a straw will break the camel's back,
though you don't know in advance which one.

As I've written in the past, crisis wars begin with a chaotic
unexpected event.  World War I began because a 12-year-old high school
student decided in 1914 that it would be fun to shoot an Archduke.  WW
II began in 1937 because a Japanese soldier had to pee and got lost in
the woods.  Those wars were a complete surprise, even to the
belligerents.  That's how WW III will begin.  It will be totally
irrational, insane and unexpected, and it could happen any day.

thinker Wrote:> I have a theory on the worker shortage, most people are saying
> that it is due to the enhanced unemployment and stimulus. Well I
> live in Florida and we haven't had any of this for a few months
> and we still have a worker shortage. Like everyone else I thought
> that once all the enhanced unemployment and stimulus ended that
> the worker shortage would end, but it didn't so I started thinking
> on this topic and I think I know why it hasn't finished and
> probably won't for years. It is a generational thing. ...

> As usual I am interested in what are the opinions and thoughts of
> the other forum members.

Quote:> "The Lost workers -- whee are the women workers?
> September jobs: -26K for women, +220K for men
> September labor force: -309K for women, +182K for men"

• Parents are appalled and disgusted by schools teaching
  children to hate each other and hate America.
  
  
• Parents are also appalled by the disgusting "gender
  fluidity" policies that expose girls to rape and abuse.
  
  
• Parents who complain are now threatened by being called racists
  and domestic terrorists.

Quote: "American universities are undergoing a profound
transformation that threatens to derail their primary mission: the
production and dissemination of knowledge. The new regime is
titled "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" or DEI, and is enforced
by a large bureaucracy of administrators. Nearly every decision
taken on campus, from admissions, to faculty hiring, to course
content, to teaching methods, is made through the lens of
DEI. This regime was imposed from the top and has never been
adequately debated. In the current climate it cannot be openly
debated: the emotions around DEI are so strong that
self-censorship among dissenting faculty is nearly universal.

The words "diversity, equity and inclusion" sound just, and are
often supported by well-intentioned people, but their effects are
the opposite of noble sentiments. Most importantly, "equity" does
not mean fair and equal treatment. DEI seeks to increase the
representation of some groups through discrimination against
members of other groups. The underlying premise of DEI is that any
statistical difference between group representation on campus and
national averages reflects systemic injustice and discrimination
by the university itself. The magnitude of the distortions is
significant: for some job searches discrimination rises to the
level of implicitly or explicitly excluding applicants from
certain groups.

DEI violates the ethical and legal principle of equal
treatment. It entails treating people as members of a group rather
than as individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the
atrocities of the 20th century. It requires being willing to tell
an applicant "I will ignore your merits and qualifications and
deny you admission because you belong to the wrong group, and I
have defined a more important social objective that justifies
doing so." It treats persons as merely means to an end, giving
primacy to a statistic over the individuality of a human
being. ...

Viewed objectively, American universities already are incredibly
diverse. They feature people from all countries, races and
ethnicities (for example, one of us was born and raised in Chile,
and is classified as Hispanic by his university). This is in stark
contrast with most universities in Europe, Asia and South
America. American universities are diverse not because of DEI, but
because they have been extremely competitive at attracting talent
from all over the world. Ninety years ago Germany had the best
universities in the world. Then an ideological regime obsessed
with race came to power and drove many of the best scholars out,
gutting the faculties and leading to sustained decay that German
universities never fully recovered from. We should view this as a
warning of the consequences of viewing group membership as more
important than merit, and correct our course before it is too
late."

• Bloody gun battle in Beirut Lebanon stokes memories of civil war
  
• Lebanon's government of impunity
  
• The investigation of the port explosion paralyzes Lebanon's government
  
• Hezbollah threatens large-scale violence
  
• Lebanon's future
  

• Deadly shooting rocks Beirut as tensions over blast probe erupt (Reuters, 14-Oct-2021)
  
• Hezbollah accuses Lebanese Forces of killing its supporters (Al-Jazeera, 18-Oct-2021)
  
• Lebanon tensions test Hezbollah-Aoun alliance (Reuters, 18-Oct-2021)
  
• Hezbollah backers claims US-Zionist-Geagea conspiracy in Lebanon - analysis (Jerusalem Post, 19-Oct-2021)
  
• Hezbollah’s campaign against Beirut blast judge paralyses Lebanon’s government (France24, 19-Oct-2021)
  
• Lebanon goes to polls in March as economic meltdown spirals (Reuters, 19-Oct-2021)
  
• Better Safe Than Sorry: Irish Peacekeepers Are Bringing Javelin Missiles On Lebanon Deployment (Forbes, 19-Oct-2021)
  
• Details of Beirut clashes remain unclear as Lebanon marks protests anniversary (Jerusalem Post, 17-Oct-2021)
  
• Iran blames Israel for Lebanon's unrest (Mideast Monitor, 16-Oct-2021)
  
• 'The Iran touch': Tehran is behind decline in Lebanon, Iraq - Bennett (Jerusalem Post, 18-Oct-2021)
  
• Marwan Bishara / A country in freefall: What future for Lebanon? (Al-Jazeera, 19-Jul-2021)
  
• Lebanon’s Future as an Inclusive Democracy in Doubt (Fair Observer, 18-Oct-2021)
  
• Lebanon to resume talks with IMF, but outcome uncertain (Deutsche-Welle, 18-Oct-2021)
  
• Lebanon elite united against probe seen as survival threat (AFP, 18-Oct-2021)
  
• Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: The Lebanese Forces Party Is The Biggest Threat To The Existence And Security Of Christians In Lebanon; We Have 100,000 Trained Fighters (Memri, 19-Oct-2021)

• Lebanon's self-destruction continues as government collapses again a year after port disaster (17-Jul-2021)
  
  
• Lebanon's new prime minister resigns in failure, throwing country into further chaos (27-Sep-2020)
  
  
• Hezbollah implicated in catastrophic Beirut Lebanon explosion (22-Aug-2020)
  
  
• Beirut Lebanon police clash with furious protesters following Tuesday's catastrophic explosion (09-Aug-2020)
  
  
• Violence surges in street protests in Lebanon as economy collapses (19-Jan-2020)
  
  
• Massive anti-government street protests paralyze Lebanon (21-Oct-2019)
  
  
• Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon border clash fizzles quickly, no repeat of 2006 war (02-Sep-2019)
  

Xeraphim1 Wrote:> The myth is that it's easy to kill carriers and yet most major
> countries have them or are building. US; UK; France; China;
> Russia; Japan; South Korea; India; Italy. With that many countries
> building, perhaps the myth is just that.

Navigator Wrote:> I am still very curious as to what the great increases to US fleet
> defenses are.

> Carriers are still the "prestige weapon", like Battleships still
> were pre WW2. Of course many thought that newer BB designs would
> make them "unsinkable" and that increased AA armament would
> protect them from newer threats. Even Japan had such advocates.

> Well, we will shortly see.

> Personally, I think that missile barrages will overwhelm the CV
> group. And of course there can be long range guided nuclear tipped
> torpedoes. Also, vast improvements in mine warfare have also
> happened, but are commonly overlooked.

Xeraphim1 Wrote:> While some of the battleship admirals refused to face the facts,
> the writing was on the wall in 1921 when Mitchell sunk
> Ostfriesland with air delivered bombs. Battleships really had no
> chance since aircraft were faster and much longer ranged. Today,
> various countries aren't spending billions on carriers out of
> vanity, but out of a realization of the unique benefits they
> offer.

> Missile barrages need to first find the target which is constantly
> moving and then get though all the dedicated firepower designed
> expressly to stop such barrages. While not impossible, it's not as
> easy as you might think. Torpedoes have a relatively short range
> and require a sub to get pretty close to actually fire them. Plus,
> using a nuclear weapon opens the door to having them be used
> against you. I think China would think very hard about
> that.

• Myanmar/Burma junta massing troops in northwest, preparing for mass slaughter
  
• ASEAN blocks Myanmar's attendance
  
• The future of Myanmar (Burma)
  

• Myanmar: UN expert fears spike in atrocities amid reports of troops massing in north (OHCHR, United Nations, 23-Oct-2021)
  
• ASEAN / Myanmar decries move to block junta leader from regional summit (Reuters, 22-Oct-2021)
  
• ASEAN excludes Myanmar junta leader from summit in rare move (Reuters, 16-Oct-2021)
  
• UN fears ‘mass atrocity crimes’ in northern Myanmar (Al-Jazeera, 23-Oct-2021)
  
• Danger to stability in South Asia due to China’s ambitions, Sino-Pak nexus ‘anti-Indian’: Gen Rawat (Tribune India, 23-Oct-2021)
  
• Myanmar junta refuses to negotiate with coup dissidents (WIO, India, 23-Oct-2021)

• Myanmar/Burma army fights new militia in Mandalay as civil war spreads (24-Jun-2021)
  
  
• Myanmar ethnic groups in Shan State launch coordinated attack on Burmese military (11-Apr-2021)
  
  
• Myanmar/Burma protests turn into ethnic civil war (29-Mar-2021)
  
  
• Devastating UN report on Burma shows scale of ghastly atrocities by Buddhists targeting Muslim Rohingyas (04-Feb-2017)
  
  
• Meiktila, Burma, violence has echoes of Kristallnacht (05-Apr-2013)
  
  
• Burma: Growing demonstrations by the '88 Generation' raise fears of new slaughter (26-Sep-2007)
  
  
• Generational history of Burma (Myanmar) (26-Sep-2007)
  

Bob Butler" Wrote:> Meanwhile, what is understood about the crisis issues of America?
> What are the primary issues of the US Revolution, US Civil War,
> FDR’s time or today? What issues are supposedly good, true and
> honest? While I have identified some of the usual suspects, what
> issues do others consider important? Non-extant wars? The Big
> Lie? How confused is the conservative viewpoint?

> All I see are evasions, not attempts to explain what is really
> meant.